Mrs. Phebe Westlake, formerly of Ulster county, whose maiden name was Irwin,
aged about 45 years, died at Chester, in Orange county, N. Y., on the 7th
inst., no doubt from the effect of poison taken for the purpose of self
destruction.

Sophie
Gauthié murdered seven of her own babies and a granddaughter, all under the age of one year. Before her arrest, she tried to
commit suicide by using the same method she used on her children. She was found guilty and executed by guillotine.

The woman Schneider, who was arrested with her husband for
decoying and murdering servant girls, attempted to commit suicide. Her recovery
is hopeless. [Note: She did, in fact, recover, and go on trial.]

“By December, 1906 police issued warrants for the arrest of
Herman Billick and Rosa Vrzal. All six bodies were exhumed and autopsies
determined that they had all died of arsenic poisoning. Though they
were able to arrest Billick, Rosa managed to escape them by committing suicide
with arsenic before she could the police could catch up with her.”

Discovery was made Nov. 4, 1911, that Mrs. Louise Vermilya,
who is under police guard at her home charged with poisoning Policeman Arthur
Bissonnette, had attempted to take her own life with arsenic. A quantity of the
poison was found in her bedroom in a pepper shaker.

Sensational developments occurred this afternoon in
connection with the investigations by detectives into the mysterious
disappearances of several babies adopted by the woman Isabella Newman, who
committed suicide at her house in Mordialloc, after detectives had placed
her under arrest.

A close guard is being maintained today [Nov. 5, 1923] over
Mrs. Eliza Patigian [error, “Potegian” in most sources], charged with poisoning
her step-daughter, following an attempt to commit suicide by strangulation in
the county jail here yesterday afternoon. The attempt by Mrs. Patigian to end
her life followed receipt of word that her mother, Mrs. Maria Torosian had
committed suicide by hanging at the Torosian ranch home west of Fresno.

Mrs. Hauptrief’s body was found in the morning shortly after
7 o’clock suspended from a narrow band from her cell door in the Hayes County
jail, where she had been during the last five months on a charge of poisoning
her four stepchildren and attempting to poison her husband.

A number of bodies were exhumed and arsenic was found in
them. Police inquiries quickly broke down the wall of fear which had so
strangely protected the guilty, and several people confessed. The evidence
against Madame Fazekas piled up so quickly broke down that she was on the point
of being arrested when she took her own life.

Susi
[Suzi] refused to talk and was released. She made her way to her home village
and visited several of her women friends. She told them to keep their mouths
shut. Unknown to Susi, the police had let her go, hoping she would lead them to
the other conspirators. The scheme worked. All the women were taken into
custody. All except Susi. When the police called at her home, there was no
answer. They found the mass murderer in a closet. She had hanged herself.
Thirty-one women were placed on trial in Szolnok for the arsenic poisonings.

The confessions showed that the widow [of] Balint Czordas
[Christine] was the second in command, a sort of vice-president of the murder
syndicate. She confessed to having helped poison twenty husbands and, also,
during the hungry years, just after the war, a few children who were hard to
feed. The morning after her confession the authorities wished to ask one or two
more questions, but she had committed suicide during the night. Three other
widows, sharing her cell, had watched Balint make a rope from bedding and hang
herself, without interfering.

“Additional precautions were taken last night to guard a
confessed woman principal in a widespread insurance-poison ring who twice
attempted suicide while shouting “witches” were chasing her. High police
officials said no official report had been made, but guards declared on one
occasion they found Mrs. Carina Favato with a handkerchief knotted around her
neck. Several hours later, they said, she plunged a safety pin into her
arteries.”

Aug. 31?, 2005, died at home of an overdose of anti-depressants before trial scheduled for
April 2006 on 13 charges

2002 – Julia Lynn Turner – Marietta, Georgia, USA

Autopsy results on Julia Lynn Womack Turner showed she died
from the "toxic effects of the prescription medication propranolol, a
blood pressure medication that Ms. Turner had been prescribed," according
to Georgia's chief medical examiner.

As she had to distance herself from dealing in babies, Wiese
forced her daughter Paula into prostitution. Paula fled to London, but became
pregnant. She returned to Hamburg and gave birth in a cellar. Immediately after
the birth Wiese drowned Paula's baby and burnt the body in the stove.
[Wikipedia]

“When [Marie Schoch] came to this country she found her
mother [Wilhelmenia Eckhardt] conducting a disorderly house [house of
prostitution] and she declared that her mother sought to have her become an
inmate of the place. She refused.”

Hassen, once a famous dancer became a “madame” for
prostitutes. This woman kidnapped, tortured and serially murdered many young
women (as well as boys). She was discovered to be a serial killer following the
discovery of dismembered body parts of one of her victims. She fed human flesh
to her cats. She was convicted and sentenced to death, but due to her powerful
political connections she was freed to continue her criminal career. Convicted
of new crimes she was sentenced to only 15 years in prison.

“Magdalena Solis also
known as the High Priestess of Blood, was a serial killer, a member of a cult
in Mexico that was responsible for orchestrating several murders, and
participated in drinking the blood of the victims. She was convicted of 8
murders and sentenced to 320 years in prison. Magdalena played a role similar,
in some respects, to a pimp or procuress. Santos and Cayetano Hernandez
recruited Magdalena Solis and her brother Eleazor to pose as mystical gods so
their gang could exhort money and sex from their followers. Early in 1963, the
Hernandez brothers convinced the remote village of Yerba Buena that the Inca
gods of the mountain were willing to give them fabulous wealth in exchange for
their undivided loyalty and sexual favors. The men and women of the village
became sexual toys for the brothers in the hopes of bringing good fortune to
the village.” [Wikipedia, excerpt]

1968 – Mary Bell – Scotswood, Newcastle, England – daughter
of a prostitute.“Bell’s mother, Betty, was a prostitute who was often absent from the
family home, travelling to Glasgow to work. Mary was her first child,
born when she was sixteen years old.”

“Independent accounts from
family members suggest strongly that Betty had attempted to kill Mary
and make her death look accidental more than once during the first few
years of her life.” [crimelibrary.com]

She was both a serial killer on an individual basis and a
serial mass murderess on an epic scale. "Credonia Mwerinde (1952-2000),
[was] a barmaid with some reputation for sexual promiscuity (who later claimed
to be a former prostitute: most probably a false claim, and a conscious attempt
to replicate the role of Mary Magdalene.)" [Massimo Introvigne, “Tragedy
in Uganda: the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a Post-Catholic
Movement,” censur.org, updated Apr. 5, 2000]

Samsonova, suspected of 11 murders in which she dismembered
the victims’ corpses, lied to police
about her background, claiming she was a retired actress and a graduate of the
Vaganov Ballet Academy, when in fact she was a former Soviet “monitor” who
surveilled hotel guests at the Grand Hotel Europe, which was once regarded the
most luxurious hotels in the world. The description of Samsonova’s job
“monitoring” hotel guests describes what in the Soviet era was a KGB-employed
prostitute. Prostitution was illegal in the Soviet era, yet prostitutes were
used by the KGB as informants, assigned to hotels to collect information on
foreign guests.

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Note: As with all other known baby farmer prosecutions in
the United States for infanticide it was impossible for the prosecution to
meet the evidentuary standard.

***

FULL TEXT: Agnes Parr, the alleged “baby farmer,” was put
upon trial in Judge Thayer’s Court, yesterday, for infanticide, in causing,
through neglect, the death of a small babe, which had been intrusted to her
keeping by an unknown mother. The Commonwealth alleged that Mrs. Parr, who
lived in Rementer court, back of 932 Arch street, had several small children,
all in a sickly condition, in her care for rearing. The Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children attention was brought to her institution and
their agenty paid her a visit. Two small children were taken from her and
placed in the Almshouse, where they subsequently died – one of them supposedly
by reason of her neglect and ill-treatment. At the trial, yesterday, these
facts were testified to. The defense, which was represented by Thomas B. Price
and Maxwell Stevenson, showed, upon cross-examination of the nurse in the
Almshouse who had charge of Mrs. Parr’s babies, that almost invariably all
infants brought to that institution would, afer a few days, die. It was also
testified by the supposed baby farmer’s neighbors that she was kind to her
young charges and respected by all who knew her. Judge Thayer, in charging the
jury, said that the prosecution had failed to connect the child’s death with
Mrs. Parr’s alleged ill-treatment, and therefore the evidence was not strong
enough to warrant a conviction. The Judge then inquired of her counsel whether
she was still carrying on the same business, and being told no, he ordered her
discharge, with the remark that he otherwise would have held her to bail to
keep the peace.

FULL TEXT: Defiance, Ohio – Defiance County Judge Joseph
Schmenk handed down the highest sentence possible in the case of Judith Hawkey,
life without the possibility or parole.

On November 3, 2003, Hawkey's step-son, Corey Breninger shot
and killed his father Robert Breninger at his Mark
Center, Ohio, home. At the time, it was ruled an accident.

The son revealed years later to a teacher after Hawkey
had collected hundreds of thousands in life insurance from Robert. He said
Hawkey had manipulated him to pull the trigger, and then lie about what
happened.

Corey, now 20, addressed Hawkey in court.

"The pain you have put me through should send you
straight to hell," said Corey Breninger.

During sentencing, the judge took long pauses trying to find
the right words, calling the case unique to him.

He made scathing remarks describing Hawkey, including
manipulative, and "evil beyond description."

Hawkey, who court witnesses said showed no remorse for
her actions, denies her guilt.

Hawkey said, "He [Corey] shot his father purposely, and
made up this whole story."

Evidence convinced the jury that she was entirely to
blame.

After the sentencing, Corey spoke with reporters about the
his feelings saying, "Relief. I feel like she got what she
deserved. I was ready to get it off my chest. I was bearing that
burden for so many years."

Corey says now he can get on with his life.

"[I can] stop living in the shadows. I don't
have to worry about anything now. My biggest fear... she's gone," said
Breninger.

Corey plans to use his difficult experience to help
others, who may have endured similar abuses.

[Chris Delcamp, Woman who manipulated 10-year-old to kill
his father gets life without parole,” Dec. 19, 2013]

Friday, July 25, 2014

FULL TEXT: Indonesia
on Sunday [Mar 20, 2005] executed a 51-year-old housewife found guilty of
murdering and mutilating three women within four years. Astini, also known as
Bu Lakri, was shot by a 12-member East Java Police firing squad at 1:20 a.m.
local time, said A.F. Darmawan, chief of the special crime unit at the area’s
High Prosecution Office. Astini’s lawyer, Ida Sampit Karo Karo, and a police
doctor were among those present at the execution.

A district court convicted Astini in Surabaya, the capital
of East Java province, in 1996 - the same year the murders were discovered
after the head of the third victim, Puji Astutik, was found in a river near
Astutik’s house in Surabaya about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of the
capital, Jakarta. Astini’s first victim, Rahayu, was killed in 1992 and the
second, Sri Astuti Wijaya, in 1993. Astini mutilated their bodies and dumped
them in separate places.

Astini, who pleaded guilty to the murders, told the court
she had been angry with the victims because they frequently came to her house
collecting debts. Like many Indonesians, Astini goes by a single name. Her
final attempt to avoid execution failed last year, when then-President Megawati
Sukarnoputri turned down her appeal for clemency.

“The execution was carried out at 1:20 WIB (1820 GMT
Saturday), but I cannot disclose the location of the execution,” Darmawan said
on Sunday at a news conference. “The late Astini was shot by 12 members of
firing squad of police, with only six of them using live bullets aimed at her
heart from a distance of five meters (16 feet),” Darmawan said, adding that she
was executed “in sitting position.” At Surabaya’s Dr. Sutomo Hospital where
Astini’s body was taken for an autopsy. Relatives of the last victim, Astutik,
said they had come to make sure Astini was dead.

“You’re dead, Astini! We are satisfied even though we have
been waiting for nine years,” shouted Astutik’s brother, Agus Purwanto.

Indonesia routinely uses execution to punish murder and drug
trafficking, and about 65 people are on now death row. Many come from other
Asian countries or Africa, and have been sentenced to die for drug offenses.
Astini’s execution was Indonesia’s fourth since August, when an Indian citizen,
Ayodhay Prasad Chaubey, faced a firing squad for smuggling heroin into the
country.

A month later, two Thai citizens - Saelow Praseart, a
58-year-old man, and Namsong Sirilak, a 32-year-old woman - were executed for
similar offenses.

On Dec. 4, 2012 Miyuki Ueta, a 38-year-old bar hostess in
Japan, was convicted for the murders of two men she had “dated.” The court
sentenced her to death.

Originally, the charge she was arrested for on November 2,
2009 was not homicide. She was taken into custody for having defrauded a woman
out of 1.26 million yen by falsely claiming that the victim’s son had been lent
money. Her 46-year-old male roommate was also taken into custody for swindling
a tractor dealer. Separate fraud charges were added against the pair on
November 20.

As the investigations proceeded it became clear that the men
whom she had been dating, including one who had to wed her, had been dropping
like flies soon after making her acquaintance. Insurance policies had been
taken out on some of the dead. Police attempted to build murder cases around at
least three of the six deceased, and two of these ended up being prosecuted.
Miyuki Ueta denied involvement in the deaths of the two men she was tried for
killing: trucker Kazumi Yabe, 47, and electronics store owner Hideki Maruyama,
57.

In the trial presided over by Takushi Noguchi, Ueta was
found guilty of drowning Yabe in the sea in April 2009 and Maruyama in a river
in October the same year, both in Tottori Prefecture, by drugging them first
with sleeping pills. Ueta, who was also charged with 16 other crimes, including
fraud and theft, owed Yabe ¥2.7 million ($26,000 US) and Maruyama around ¥1.23
million ($12,000 US), for the purchase of electrical appliances, according to
the court. Judge Noguchi said "capital punishment is unavoidable" for
the perpetrator of such heinous crimes.

Her lawyers filed an appeal and on Mar. 20, 2014 her death
sentence upheld by the appelate court.

Court testimony showed that: “on some days Elizabeth had
naked girls laid flat on the floor of her bedroom and tortured them so much
that one could scoop up the blood by the pail afterward.” When the Countess was
too ill to leave bed in order to participate in her usual pastime she demanded
that a victim be brought to her and held. “Elizabeth rose up on her bed and bit
the girl on the cheek. Then she turned to the girl’s shoulders, where she
ripped out a piece of flesh with her teeth. After that, Elizabeth proceeded to
bite the girl’s breasts.”

Saltykova was a
Russian noble from Moscow who became notorious for torturing and killing and
torturing 138 female serfs. She beat them with logs and rolling pins and
reportedly mutilated their genitals.

Zwanziger’s “ admitted motive was sheer
malevolent pleasure – at her trial in 1828, she confessed that the sight of her
victims’ death agonies threw her into a transport of ecstacy.” [Harold Schechter,The
A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers]

“It amused her [Anna Zwanziger] to see the contortions of
her victims.” [Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot
Lodge, The North American Review,
Volume 161, 1895, p. xx]

“With a fanaticism that would have made Mary Tudor proud, she came up with
creative and inventive ways to eliminate any one caught practicing
Christianity. They were tortured, flung from cliffs, boiled in water, poisoned,
flung off cliffs or beheaded if they didn’t recant.”

By her own confession, it is evident that she revelled in
the sense of power she enjoyed from the possession of this secret and murderous weapon. From the gratification it afforded
her, she grew actually to love it for its own sake. When, in prison, a parcel
of arsenic was placed before her, her eyes glistened with the passionate desire
to possess it; and when she was about to be
executed, she avowed that her death would be a happy event for mankind, as she
was sure she never could have renounced the pleasure of using it. [Catherine
Crowe, Light and Darkness: or, The
Mysteries of Life, 1850, London: Henry Colburn, pp. 64-85]

An 1862 news clipping reports: “A woman known as the ‘She
Wolf’ has been the terror of Gallicia and the neighboring provinces for the
last twenty years. Always on horseback, and followed by a small number of
bandits, she was at the head of all the robberies and murders committed in that
part of Spain.” Josepha was noted for her predilection for torturing her
victims. She was arrested after her hide-out was discovered during the search
for a different criminal.

A servant girl, she murdered three children in two different
families in an astonishingly disgusting and brutal manner and confessed she had
a compulsion that would have led to murdering the rest of the children in the
household she was serving in at the time of her arrest.

Indirect quote: “She said she had a mania to destroy human
life, and it was by the greatest self-denial that she could restrain herself
from secretly poisoning all persons with whom she was on terms of friendship.” (6 victims)

The Court of Assizes of the Haute-Loire has
just been engaged in the trial of a midwife of Le Puy named Julien, and her
husband, a carpenter, on numerous charges of ill-treatment, and murder of
infants under circumstances of the most revolting cruelty. The female prisoner
accustomed to receive children of unmarried women, and which for a certain sum,
varying from 200 f. to 400 f., she undertook to bring up or get place in some
orphan asylum. They were then subjected by the woman to such barbarous usage
that their death ensued in a very short time – in some cases by absolute
starvation. These facts at length came to the knowledge of the authorities, and
an outcry was made by the police. On searching a cupboard about six feet long
by four feet widow, a little girl about two years old was found lying on a heap
of rotten straw covered by filth; the body was one mass of putrid sores; two
toes of the left foot had dropped off, and the bones of the rest could be seen
exposed through the decomposing flesh. One witness, who had lodged in the house
for three days, proved that the child had not been once moved all that time,
and that at last it had not sufficient strength to cry out. By proper attention
it has, however, now recovered.

“Pittsburg’s arch murderess slew her victims for the
pleasure of seeing them die. She planned her work with deadly patience, and
thought no labor too hard that brought to her the chance of seeing some
unsuspecting man, woman or child, writing in the horrible agony of dissolution,
brought about by the poison she had administered. There was not the slightest
motive of gain or animosity in any of her murders. She killed them, and
admitted so at the last, simply for the love of taking life, and of seeing
suffering. She was an expert in administering the poison, her skill no doubt
being gained by her long practice, and she graduated her doses so as to cause
her helpless victims the greatest and most protracted suffering. Their deaths were
always, it is said by persons who remember, of a most horrible character,
enough to move a heart of stone.”

“She confessed having murdered nine infants, entrusted to
her to nurse. Her baby farming consisted in drowning the little darlings in a
basin of water, then cutting them up into morsels in her lap, and burying the
remains in her kitchen under the stairs, or in the water-closet. All this she
confessed with a savage glee, describing the process in full court, and in the
presence of the skeletons of seven of her massacred innocents.”

She was a clever woman with a highly nervous and excitable
organization, and she seems to have no other motive for her crimes than a
morbid love of the excitement of murder and a grim delight in witnessing the
sufferings of her victims.

Arrested at age 15.
Two or three children, a dog, two cats, six or eight birds, and some gold fish,
had all fallen victims to her unnatural propensity for destruction before her
crime was discovered. One little boy, aged eleven years, testified that one
night he awoke by feeling something hurting him, and upon looking up found this
delectable young woman, who lived as a servant in the same house, stooping over
him with one hand on his mouth, and the other tightly grasping his throat.

Like others of her breed, she was a confirmed predator,
addicted to cruelty and death. Making other people die -- and deriving sadistic
delight from their torments -- was a pleasure she couldn’t easily do without.
(H. Schechter)

Cotton: The court documents from her murder trial suggest an
element of real sadism at work. Mary Ann’s neighbour Jane Hedley was one of
those who witnessed the excruciating death of Nattrass. Under oath, she told
Durham Crown Court: ‘I was very friendly with The Prisoner, I assisted … during
the time of the illness. I saw him have fits, he was very twisted up and seemed
in great agony. He twisted his toes and his hands and worked them all ways. He
drew his legs quite up.’ She describes how he ‘threw himself about’ and how his
murderess – presumably in the guise of caring for him – was obliged to restrain
him with force. It is clear from Jane Hedley’s account that, by this stage at
least, Mary Ann had the confidence to kill right under the noses of the
doctors. It is hard not to believe that there was some element of enjoyment at
the control she exercised – that she was, in other words, a psychopath. I
believe she would have enjoyed holding down Nattrass as he died writhing in
agony. [David Wilson (Professor Of Criminology At Birmingham University), “She poisoned 21
people including her own mother, children and husbands. So why has no-one heard
of Britain’s FIRST serial killer, Mary Ann Cotton?” Mail Online, Feb. 5, 2012]

Marguerite Léris had a vile disposition and fought
constantly with her neighbors. She verbally and physically violent towards her
husband and other family members. She had had brutalized her daughter,
Marguerite, daily since childhood, once so wounding the child so badly that she
was permanently scarred.On one occasion
she once pulled out hair and part of the skin of the child’s scalp. She hated
her daughter so much that she once asked her husband to take the girl out to
the woods and leave her to die. She was likewise violent towards her grandson,
Jean-David, who, like little Marguerite, was left scarred by her attacks.

Passage which describes the most shocking of Marie Bleirs’
crimes: “And the crippled boy – who was he? Her own child by Louis Lemberg. In
a moment of horrible passion she severed the limbs of the infant at the joints,
and then gave him to a miserable hag to extort charity. Afterward the idea seized
her that she would like him to repose with the rest, and so she took him to her
dwelling and would have ended his fate but for the timely intervention of the
domestic.”

A female brigand named Mila is being tried for some of her
crimes at Posezarez [Požarevac],
Servia. She has been for a number of years a terror to the people of that
region, and her crimes and cruelties far exceed those of ordinary brigands in
Turkey and Servia. Mila is accused of fourteen murders and numerous robberies,
and a peculiarly unfeminine feature of her deeds of blood was that she horribly
mutilated her victims. In audacity and cruelty she had no equal among outlaws.
She is not good-looking and has a nose like a hawk.

A recent telegram from London states
that some shocking revelations have been made in connection with baby-farming at Warasdin, a town 36 miles from
Agram, the capital of Croatia (Austria). Several miscreants had been arrested,
who, it was ascertained, systematically practised shocking cruelties on children
in order to produce various kinds of deformity for the purpose of exciting
sympathy of the public. In some cases it was discovered that children were
purposely crippled so that they might accompany beggars on their rounds.
Children were found whose legs and arms had been deliberately broken while
others had had their eyes gouged out so as to make them blind. One unfortunate
child was found with its body bent double, and kept in that position by being
placed between boards tightly screwed together. Various horrible implements of
torture intended to be used for producing deformity in children were also
brought to light.

No one could have guessed that during her tenure at a
Massachusetts hospital the amiable “Jolly Jane” was morbidly obsessed with
autopsies, or that she conducted her own after-hours experiments on patients,
deriving sexual satisfaction in their slow, agonizing deaths from poison.
(Harold Schechter, Fatal)

The evidence showed that all the husbands were healthy young men when they
married. Each in succession suddenly lost his health, complained of terrible
pains in all his limbs, violent headaches, loss of appetite and growing
weakness. The wife administered arsenic to each of the victims in small
quantities, mixing it in meat, soup and various dishes. She watched them one
after another literally sinking into the grave, and their sufferings left her
unmoved. She calculated how long the poison would take to complete its fatal
work, and all four husbands died about a year after she began administering the
poison. … Several experts entrusted with the task of examining the prisoner’s
mental condition came to the conclusion that she murdered her husbands from
sheer delight in homicide.

Rendell brutally abused Morris’ children, once beating Annie
so brutally that she could not walk. Arresting officer Inspector Harry Mann
said “she delighted in seeing her victims writhe in agony, and from it derived
sexual satisfaction.”

It is said 300 persons have been slain by the “sacrifice
sect” within the last six years. “I am the axe woman of the sacrifice sect,” she shouted from her prisoner’s stand, where she is guarded by three deputies.
“I killed them all, men, women and babies, and I hugged the babies to my
breast. But I am not guilty of murder.”

“She fastened her two year-old
daughter to a post, and then having laid a fire set the child’s clothes ablaze.
The helpless infant was burnt to death after having suffered terrible agony.
The unnatural mother watched the whole affair. … Two other children of the
prisoner died [the previous] year in suspicious circumstances.”

Enriqueta kidnapped children, provided them to pedophiles
and murdered them, making their blood into “elixirs.” She forced a young girl
to eat portions of the body of another child she had witnessed the murder of.

“She
killed her first husband,” said Gaudensia, “for spending his money in
grog-shops, and because she heard he was mixing with another woman.

“That
unfortunate man came home one night, slightly under the influence. She tore his
clothes off him, and tied him up. Then she criss-crossed him with the thin side
of a razor, and rubbed salt in the wounds.

“She
turned him loose, naked, to hop around with pain. She drove a red-hot poker
through his skull, which seemed to be carrying it quite far enough. She ended
by tying him to his donkey and starting him back for the grog-shop where the
other woman could usually be found. She couldn’t read or write so that her
method of sending word that she was through with him.

The only motive which the French police now hold in the
mysterious poisoning of six persons by Antoinette Scierri, a nurse, is that she
liked to see her victims’ death struggles. Although small sums of money were
taken in several instances, it is believed that this was not the basic death
motive. The nurse made wreaths for the graves of her victims and showed tender
care during their last moments.

Hassen, once a famous dancer became a madame for
prostitutes, kidnapped, tortured and serially murdered many young women (as
well as boys). She was discovered to be a serial killer following the discovery
of dismembered body parts of one of her victims. She fed human flesh to her
cats. She was convicted and sentenced to death, but due to her powerful
political connections she was freed to continue her criminal career. Convicted
of new crimes she was sentenced to only 15 years in prison.

Felícitas Sánchez Aguillón or Sánchez Neyra (1890 -
June 16, 1941) was a Mexican nurse, midwife, baby farmer and serial killer,
active during the 1930s in Mexico City, who killed babies in her care. It is
estimated that Felícitas
murdered children in numbers ranging from between 40 and neatly a hundred. Her
victims were aged from newborn to three years old. Typically she would poison
or strangle the children, according to some reports sometimes she would
dismember a child while still living.

“When police of Mexico
City swooped on an eerie house and garden in the quiet town of Panzacola to
free a nude, half-crazed, 18-years-old girl, whose chained body bore savage
imprints of teeth, strange welts, and hideous scars, they uncovered a cesspool
seething with the paraphernalia of witchcraft and black magic. But more
petrifying was the subsequent discovery of the bones and bodies of two tiny
babies …”

Guard at
Ravensbruück concentration camp. According to witness testimony she whipped
several women to death and in other instances killed women by stomping on them
with her steel-studded jackboots, earning her the nickname “The Stomping Mare.”
B. was not “just following orders,” rather she was acting to serve her personal
sadistic pleasure.

National Socialist Party SS member, Average number of
victims, 30 a day, motivated by “sport.” She murdered female inmates in the
concentration camp by ordering them to venture into forbidden zones where
they would be shot by guards under strict orders to kill all trespassers. G.
was not “just following orders,” rather she was acting to serve her personal
sadistic pleasure.

177 murders attributed to the cult. “The Calendarists first
hit the news columns back in 1950 when their convent’s mother superior, Miriam
Soulakiotis (a former factory worker), was arrested on 23 charges that included
murder, fraud, embezzlement, abduction and assault. Miss Soulakiotis became
known as “The Woman Rasputin.” Sentenced to 16 years, she died in prison in
1954 at the age of 71. The Woman Rasputin preached and practiced religious
beatings for her followers as the only means of obtaining salvation. She also
duped many of her new recruits into signing over their property to her name
since she convinced them this was the best way to get into heaven. Prosecutor
Papakarius reported that the abbess amassed a fortune of some $150,000 by
embezzling the dowries of Greek women who joined their convent.”

During Tann’s tenure as head of the organization she
founded, Tennessee Children’s Home Society, in Memphis, the region had the
highest infant mortality rate in the nation. Her practice was to rid herself of
those babies put in her charge she deemed unsaleable by leaving them unattended
out in the sun until they broiled to death. She and her lover and male sexual
deviants she employed would beat and torture children for the perverse sexual
thrill of it.

According to one surviving victim, Georgia and her companion
would hit the children “on the scalp so no one could see the bruises.” Favored
forms of child torture at the Home included tying a rope around a child’s
wrists and hang it up on a coat rack and dangling a child from a rope down the
laundry chute.

Atkins savagely murdered at least 9 persons (and perhaps more than
20 in total), including a pregnant woman.

“Wow. What a trip! I thought, ‘To taste death, and yet give
life.’ Have you ever tasted blood? It’s warm and sticky and nice.” (V, 400)

“They didn’t even look like people... I didn’t relate to Sharon Tate as being
anything but a store mannequin... [Tate] sounded just like an IBM machine...
She kept begging and pleading and pleading and begging [for the life of her
unborn child], and I got sick of listening to her, so I stabbed her.”

On September 10, 1978, Rhonda Scheffler (age 17) and Kippi
Vaught (age 16) were shopping at Country Club Plaza in Sacramento County when
Charlene enticed them into their van. Gerald and Charlene raped and further
sexually abused the two victims throughout the night in rural Placer County.
Evidence showed that Charlene bit the breasts of one victim; and Gerald, the
other. The next day, the Gallegos drove back to Sacramento County, where Gerald
made Rhonda and Kippi get out of the van and walk across a field to a ditch. He
hit the girls with a tire iron and shot them in the head with a 25-caliber
pistol. As Gerald was walking back to the van, he saw one of the victims (later
revealed to be Kippi Vaught) move; the bullet had only grazed her skull. He
returned and shot her three more times in the head, killing her.

Charlene would later tell a cellmate how ecstatic she felt
during this kidnap-rape.

A
cellmate testified at trial that Mrs. Wittenmyer told her about poisoning her
two husbands. “She said she was going to go through life finding men with money
and poisoning them, using the lonely hearts club ads. She said that she enjoyed to see them in pain from the poison,”
testified Barbara Quaranto, 46, who was convicted in Chattanooga in the
shooting death of her 73-year-old husband. Canadian rancher Henry Joneson said
he sent 12 letters and a $1,150 check to Mrs. Wittenmyer before learning last
week that the address she had given him was the prison and not the retreat she
had told him it was. The Tomahawk, Alberta, man said he answered Mrs.
Wittenmyer’s ad in [an] agricultural publication in April that read: “Widow
wishes to start new life – will relocate.” When Mrs. Wittenmyer telephoned him
after her second poisoning conviction, Johnson said he told her,” … I found out
everything and goodbye.” She committed suicide in jail awaiting trial.

With Marc Dutroux, murdered 6 teenage girls after raping and
torturing them. This is the most complicated serial killer case in history,
involving a large number of mysterious deaths of witnesses, police and others
associated with the case during the course of the investigation as well as
political intrigue at the highest levels of the Belgian government.

In mid-90′s Belgium, six young girls were raped and tortured
by a wealthy antisocial man named Marc Dutroux. He kept them in the basement of
one of his seven homes; his wife, Michelle Martin was aware of her husband’s
activities. Two of the victims, 17-year-old An Marchal and 19-year-old
Eefje Lambrecks, were drugged and buried alive. Two more, Julie Lejeune
and Mélissa Russo, both 8, were starved to death. Dutroux, before going to jail
for car theft, gave Martin instructions to feed them, which she disregarded.
Another two, Sabine Dardenne, then 12, and Laetitia Delhez, then 14,
survived. Both girls testified against Dutroux at his 2004 trial, helping to
put him away for life. Another accomplice, Michel Lelièvre, was sentenced
to 25 years, and the wife, Martin, to 30. [Nastacia Leshchinskaya, “Survivor
Protests Release of Serial Killer’s Ex-Wife & Accomplice,” Crime Library,
August 20, 2012]

Monique Olivier, 59, helped Michel Fourniret [apprehended
Jun. 26, 2003], the so-called “Ogre of the Ardennes”, to lure young women into
a van so that he could kidnap and rape them. “Using an image of happily-married
respectability, Olivier would gain the confidence of the girls and women they
had identified as prey.”

This 31-year-old Englishwoman told her friend, “I want my
fun. I need you to get my fun.” This fun consisted of finding a male stranger
to stab in the heart. Ms. Dennehy was able to, over a period of several weeks,
to engage in this form of amusement on five occasions, resulting in three
deaths.

One of her nursing colleagues described to police Daniela’s
strange behavior following the deaths of her patients: “She was particularly
euphoric and wanted to have a photo next to the dead body,” as Il Corriere
della Sera reports. Investigators propose the motive for the killings was that
the victims “irritated her.”

25-year old sexual sadist, with her 20-year-old male
accomplice, whose alternative sexuality preference involved stabbing 12 men (up
to 107 times), all strangers, randomly selected, to death, and photographing
them “with their stomachs cut open.” She was inspired by the movie “Bride of
Chucky,” and has a tattoo of the character on her arm.